This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...Caesar, Antony is dead. Ce&. The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: The round world should have shook Lions into civil streets,3 And citizens to their dens: --The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world. Der. He is dead, Caesar; Not by a public ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...Caesar, Antony is dead. Ce&. The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: The round world should have shook Lions into civil streets,3 And citizens to their dens: --The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world. Der. He is dead, Caesar; Not by a public minister of justice, Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand, Which writ his honour in the acts it did, Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, Splitted the heart.--This is his sword, I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd With his most noble blood. Ccbs. Look you sad, friends? The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings To wash the eyes of kings.4 Agr. And strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. Mec His taints and honours Waged" equal with him. Agr. A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us Some faults to make us men. CJaesar is touch'd. Mec. When such a spacious mirror's set before him, He needs must see himself. Cms. O, Antony! I have follow'.! thee to tins;--But we do lance6 1 Frustrate for frustrated was the language of Shakpeare's time 5 and we find contaminate for contami natcd, consummate for consummated, &c. Thus in The Tempest: --and the sea mocks Our frustrate search by land.' The two last words in this line, us by, are not in the old copy, in which something seems omitted, and these words, which suit the context wpll, were supplied by Malone, who has justified his selection of them by instances of similar phraseology in other passages of these plays. 2 i. e. with a drawn and bloody sword in thy hand. 3 The passage i3 thus arranged in the old copy: --'The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have...
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